Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

For years there has been a neopaganism in the academic world called ecotheology. Viktor Ferkiss was a supporter of ecotheology, which, he said, “starts with the premise that the Universe is God.” As with other religions, many articles of this “faith” are held without any evidence to support them. This is especially true among evolutionists. On November 5, 1981, British Museum of Natural History Senior Paleontologist Colin Patterson gave an informal talk to the Systematics Discussion Group at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The most quoted part of his talk was as follows:

“For the last eighteen months or so, I’ve been kicking around non-evolutionary ideas. Now, one of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view, well, let’s call it non-evolutionary, was [that] last year I had a sudden realization. For over twenty years I had thought that I was working on evolution in some way. One morning I woke up, and . . . it struck me that . . . there was not one thing I knew about it. That was quite a shock, to learn that one can be so misled for so long.

“Now I think many people in this room would acknowledge that during the last few years . . . you’ve experienced a shift from evolution as knowledge to evolution as faith. I know that’s true of me, and I think it’s true of a good many of you in here.”